I was initially reluctant to try it out, but now I like it better than the other views.
I liked Nested view earlier.
I'd like a better way of replying that lets me see more of the discussion (similar to the PHPBB and other forums), and as some mentioned, a way to filter out Funny or by moderation.
Interesting... in my country you can't graduate younger than a certain age even if you wanted to, because the system doesn't allow students to enter school before the 7th birthday and there is no way to do two years at once or whatever it takes to complete it earlier. It could be argued, but it does mean all the class is on the same page in age development (especially important during adolescence I guess) although probably not on a mental age...
However I do envy the possibility of doing two years at once at University, over here they put artificial limits to prevent students from graduating in less than 5 years (for example you can't take the Programming III course, much less the exam, unless you passed the Calculus II course on multiple integration, even though they have nothing in common).
Excelent point. My country is negotiating a trade treaty with the US, and one of the contentious points is that they're basically forcing us to adopt their patents & copyright law (besides forcing to abolish some state-run monopolies and other policies they're forcing on us).
My TV has been turned off (unplugged and used as another table:P ) for most of the year - I did turn it on for the (soccer) World Cup, but that was it. I do miss some shows, but that's all.
You wouldn't believe how hard it is for us 3rd world workers.
I'm responsible for over 20k (dollars) in hardware, have at all times a stock worth a years' salary (with no supervision other than a meager Excel table & I have admin privileges).
I wouldn't dream of touching the stuff.
Still, the risk/reward thing is all screwed up - even more so for policemen for instance, can you expect them to risk their lives for 100 (USD) a month? Yet some do (many go corrupt unfortunately, but who can blame them..) .
Wrong. Gates might be better known for his business prowess, but he dropped out of a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science.
According to Wikipedia: [in 1973] he scored 1590 on his SATs, and was able to enroll at Harvard University in the fall of 1973 to pursue a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science.
I've never understood this. US slashdotters (most of you?) are always opposing better identification schemes, but then you scream because someone knows 25.000 social security numbers?
We have a national ID card in my country, and it's common to see them posted next to faculty exam results, on the internet, etc... but with the number and name alone an identity theft will be just a little better off than when he started.
So why is it so important in the US? BTW I've just looked at Wikipedia's entry: "Ironically enough, Social Security cards used to have the caption "Not for identification," indicating that the cards and their number are not intended to be a form of identification"
Of course, Wikipedia also states that all Spanish-law based countries usually have an official ID while English-law based systems don't.
Also from Wikipedia: "Exacerbating the problem is the fact that the United States has no national ID document and that the social security card contains no biometric identifiers of any sort, making it essentially impossible to tell whether a person using a certain SSN is truly the person to whom it was issued without relying on some other means of documentation (which may itself have been falsely procured through use of the fraudulent SSN)"
Of course, this is only tangentially relevant to TFA, but...
I don't share your opinion, I've seen both good and bad women bosses, just like men.
My boss is a woman (chief of operations), and she's excellent - the difference being, unlike others, she's an engineer
on the other hand, we had a woman (trained in quality management) as head of the software factory and she was a complete failure, she didn't understand what her employees did.
While it is a widely held belief - even being propagated by some patent offices with misleading titles like "Looking after your ideas" http://www.patent.gov.uk/patent/info/ideas.pdf -, no, you cannot patent an idea (well, software patents are the closest thing to that), you can patent an expression of an idea though (invention usually).
That's a good point. It's definitely bothersome for glasses-wearing people like myself not to be able to comfortably use binoculars, telescopes, sights etc...
Well, I don't know about the US, but over here (Uruguay) we have two very different orientations for computer science: Computer Engineers, that get the full maths and physics training along with computer science, and Systems Analysis (what I'm studying), which at least in the university I attend has the exact same computer science, but less mathematics and no physics, instead studying Operations Management, Administration, Accounting, Strategic Management... and we are taught about Porter's 5 forces, value chain, supply chain, even "newer" theories such as the Edge of Chaos stuff and Peter Drucker.
I think that the people that devised the course got it right, it enables graduates to work for the software companies working for corporations (what, 99% of them?) and understand what they are doing.
An accountant once told me that there is a vast difference between business software created by people who know at least accounting principles, and the Computer Engineer types that do integers in their sleep, but have to be re-trained to be able to work for corporations.
I see this all the time... People refuse to believe that what was once a value-adding activity is no longer that, so in my country we have ascensorists, typists, old equipment operators, etc. going on strike, holding hostage the work environments and machinery, and pressuring the government, which unfortunately folds way too often and creates inefficiency.
It is my view that we would be a lot better off if those people were encouraged/helped to re-train and take new jobs we have lots of demand for. I see work not as reducing as some "end-of-work" people say, just that it is shifting towards more unstructured or service oriented tasks, and not only hand labor is being automated, now routine "intellectual" tasks are too
Of course not everyone can be re-trained, but hopefully someone wiser than I will find a solution...
I've been twice I think to record stores, and I almost never listen to the records I've bought, changing CD's is extremely inconvenient. As everyone else has mentioned, shopping for music, books and movies is actually a more value-added activity online (I can see reviews, listen to samples, etc, way faster than I could in a store), unlike say shopping for a house appliance, clothes, impulse buy/luxury items, or a car where the physical experience hasn't been duplicated yet. So I'd say that as soon as more people think like me, your business model is doomed (it will probably live on but as a niche market).
Thanks all of you for educating me:-) Though I find it funny that there are other replies venturing other distributions of Linux, good it's not just me.
I haven't tried Gnome, odd as it might seem I've only used KDE-based distributions.
You want to alienate the distribution channel??? Not a good idea.
I mean, it's Sony, but as Gamestop, Toys R-Us, or whatever distribution channel Sony uses would be pissed off, which means they could back the competition instead if they feel they're being screwed.
I certainly would want to have -insert next gen console- at time of lauch, otherwise people would wisen up and maybe not buy from the retail channel next time.
Most PC distributors I know of try hard not to compete with their retailers - yes I know Dell does the opposite seemingly, and everyone has an online store, but usually at higher prices than those of distributors.
Cool-looking system monitor. What Linux distribution is it? It seems I've fallen way behind (I don't remember seeing that and I'd rather not use command line although I like the "kill" command:-P)
Just to be on-topic, does Picasa hack an explorer process onto Linux?
He said he was nostalgic for Super Mario Bros. I also have a Nintendo and the original Super Mario games (amongst others), but the Nintendo doesn't work. You suggest I should buy them again or is it OK for me to play an emulator?
Unfortunately here in South America people have "learned better" than to trust a bank.
In Argentina and Uruguay, banks defaulted as recently as 2002, leaving lots of people without their savings, pensions and paychecks, in a recession we're just getting out of.
I hope your government's regulations are good enough, in Argentina the government was the first to jump ship - of course all the corrupt politicians took their money out, even the current Argentinean president's province moved its money to Switzerland all the time asking people to trust the local banking system.
While I do hope someone does something about spam, I'm not certain if vigilantism is such an answer... just think if one of Spamhaus's 200 spammers is mis-identified.
We have been mistaken for spammers once, and it's not nice, we were blacklisted for 3 days before we convinced the blacklisters that we were a legitimate business, during that time our sales people had a hard time (and no we don't send newsletters or nothing of the kind, just business email).
Being DOS'd or some of the scarier options proposed does not sound good to me.
You might want to try the FasterFox extension http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/, it does some of what you ask (it prefetches links and keeps the back and forward links in memory for example) although some people have warned me that some of what it does is considered bad ethics by webmasters, like prefetching or opening more threads than default.
It's no more creepy than swearing on a bible in court.
Now, I find THAT to be creepy.
BTW your comment caused me to google on that, and it seems it's not mandatory in the US (I didn't know that, since most Hollywood movies have the defendant swear on a bible).
Imagine a time and place where you have a security rating...
Unfortunately I don't have to imagine it. It happened in my country (Uruguay) up to 1985, during one of the Latin American dictatorships (backed up by the US btw).
There were several levels of security ratings, those with lower levels couldn't work, or study (I can't find a link of the specifics, and I was an infant at the time)
Unfortunately, there are so many laws, many of them conflicting, that it's very likely the policeman was correct.
I recall a newspaper calculated after the passing of some law in my country that at least 40% of the population had broken it.
Since everyone's a criminal, the government can select when to selectively enforce those laws... (this is an interesting theory/meme I see on Slashdot often, and it seems scaringly true.)
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I was initially reluctant to try it out, but now I like it better than the other views.
I liked Nested view earlier.
I'd like a better way of replying that lets me see more of the discussion (similar to the PHPBB and other forums), and as some mentioned, a way to filter out Funny or by moderation.
Interesting... in my country you can't graduate younger than a certain age even if you wanted to, because the system doesn't allow students to enter school before the 7th birthday and there is no way to do two years at once or whatever it takes to complete it earlier. It could be argued, but it does mean all the class is on the same page in age development (especially important during adolescence I guess) although probably not on a mental age...
However I do envy the possibility of doing two years at once at University, over here they put artificial limits to prevent students from graduating in less than 5 years (for example you can't take the Programming III course, much less the exam, unless you passed the Calculus II course on multiple integration, even though they have nothing in common).
Excelent point. My country is negotiating a trade treaty with the US, and one of the contentious points is that they're basically forcing us to adopt their patents & copyright law (besides forcing to abolish some state-run monopolies and other policies they're forcing on us).
My TV has been turned off (unplugged and used as another table :P ) for most of the year - I did turn it on for the (soccer) World Cup, but that was it. I do miss some shows, but that's all.
You wouldn't believe how hard it is for us 3rd world workers.
I'm responsible for over 20k (dollars) in hardware, have at all times a stock worth a years' salary (with no supervision other than a meager Excel table & I have admin privileges).
I wouldn't dream of touching the stuff.
Still, the risk/reward thing is all screwed up - even more so for policemen for instance, can you expect them to risk their lives for 100 (USD) a month? Yet some do (many go corrupt unfortunately, but who can blame them..) .
Wrong. Gates might be better known for his business prowess, but he dropped out of a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science.
According to Wikipedia: [in 1973] he scored 1590 on his SATs, and was able to enroll at Harvard University in the fall of 1973 to pursue a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science.
I've never understood this. US slashdotters (most of you?) are always opposing better identification schemes, but then you scream because someone knows 25.000 social security numbers?
We have a national ID card in my country, and it's common to see them posted next to faculty exam results, on the internet, etc... but with the number and name alone an identity theft will be just a little better off than when he started.
So why is it so important in the US? BTW I've just looked at Wikipedia's entry: "Ironically enough, Social Security cards used to have the caption "Not for identification," indicating that the cards and their number are not intended to be a form of identification"
Of course, Wikipedia also states that all Spanish-law based countries usually have an official ID while English-law based systems don't.
Also from Wikipedia: "Exacerbating the problem is the fact that the United States has no national ID document and that the social security card contains no biometric identifiers of any sort, making it essentially impossible to tell whether a person using a certain SSN is truly the person to whom it was issued without relying on some other means of documentation (which may itself have been falsely procured through use of the fraudulent SSN)"
Of course, this is only tangentially relevant to TFA, but...
I don't share your opinion, I've seen both good and bad women bosses, just like men.
My boss is a woman (chief of operations), and she's excellent - the difference being, unlike others, she's an engineer
on the other hand, we had a woman (trained in quality management) as head of the software factory and she was a complete failure, she didn't understand what her employees did.
While it is a widely held belief - even being propagated by some patent offices with misleading titles like "Looking after your ideas" http://www.patent.gov.uk/patent/info/ideas.pdf -, no, you cannot patent an idea (well, software patents are the closest thing to that), you can patent an expression of an idea though (invention usually).
d eas_pr.html ,
Here's an article from EFF's Jon Perry on Wired: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.03/economy.i
and a less dense and clear (but probably outdated) from the Enterpreneur Network: http://tenonline.org/art/9010.html
That's a good point. It's definitely bothersome for glasses-wearing people like myself not to be able to comfortably use binoculars, telescopes, sights etc...
Well, I don't know about the US, but over here (Uruguay) we have two very different orientations for computer science: Computer Engineers, that get the full maths and physics training along with computer science, and Systems Analysis (what I'm studying), which at least in the university I attend has the exact same computer science, but less mathematics and no physics, instead studying Operations Management, Administration, Accounting, Strategic Management... and we are taught about Porter's 5 forces, value chain, supply chain, even "newer" theories such as the Edge of Chaos stuff and Peter Drucker.
I think that the people that devised the course got it right, it enables graduates to work for the software companies working for corporations (what, 99% of them?) and understand what they are doing.
An accountant once told me that there is a vast difference between business software created by people who know at least accounting principles, and the Computer Engineer types that do integers in their sleep, but have to be re-trained to be able to work for corporations.
Sigged as honest-to-god truth.
I see this all the time... People refuse to believe that what was once a value-adding activity is no longer that, so in my country we have ascensorists, typists, old equipment operators, etc. going on strike, holding hostage the work environments and machinery, and pressuring the government, which unfortunately folds way too often and creates inefficiency.
It is my view that we would be a lot better off if those people were encouraged/helped to re-train and take new jobs we have lots of demand for. I see work not as reducing as some "end-of-work" people say, just that it is shifting towards more unstructured or service oriented tasks, and not only hand labor is being automated, now routine "intellectual" tasks are too
Of course not everyone can be re-trained, but hopefully someone wiser than I will find a solution...
I've been twice I think to record stores, and I almost never listen to the records I've bought, changing CD's is extremely inconvenient. As everyone else has mentioned, shopping for music, books and movies is actually a more value-added activity online (I can see reviews, listen to samples, etc, way faster than I could in a store), unlike say shopping for a house appliance, clothes, impulse buy/luxury items, or a car where the physical experience hasn't been duplicated yet. So I'd say that as soon as more people think like me, your business model is doomed (it will probably live on but as a niche market).
Thanks all of you for educating me :-) Though I find it funny that there are other replies venturing other distributions of Linux, good it's not just me.
I haven't tried Gnome, odd as it might seem I've only used KDE-based distributions.
I'll look into it, thanks!. Go GUIs!!!
Anybody else who has a 6-year-old PC and plans to buy a Wii raise their hands :-P
You want to alienate the distribution channel??? Not a good idea.
I mean, it's Sony, but as Gamestop, Toys R-Us, or whatever distribution channel Sony uses would be pissed off, which means they could back the competition instead if they feel they're being screwed.
I certainly would want to have -insert next gen console- at time of lauch, otherwise people would wisen up and maybe not buy from the retail channel next time.
Most PC distributors I know of try hard not to compete with their retailers - yes I know Dell does the opposite seemingly, and everyone has an online store, but usually at higher prices than those of distributors.
Cool-looking system monitor. What Linux distribution is it? It seems I've fallen way behind (I don't remember seeing that and I'd rather not use command line although I like the "kill" command :-P)
Just to be on-topic, does Picasa hack an explorer process onto Linux?
He said he was nostalgic for Super Mario Bros. I also have a Nintendo and the original Super Mario games (amongst others), but the Nintendo doesn't work. You suggest I should buy them again or is it OK for me to play an emulator?
Unfortunately here in South America people have "learned better" than to trust a bank.
In Argentina and Uruguay, banks defaulted as recently as 2002, leaving lots of people without their savings, pensions and paychecks, in a recession we're just getting out of.
I hope your government's regulations are good enough, in Argentina the government was the first to jump ship - of course all the corrupt politicians took their money out, even the current Argentinean president's province moved its money to Switzerland all the time asking people to trust the local banking system.
While I do hope someone does something about spam, I'm not certain if vigilantism is such an answer... just think if one of Spamhaus's 200 spammers is mis-identified.
We have been mistaken for spammers once, and it's not nice, we were blacklisted for 3 days before we convinced the blacklisters that we were a legitimate business, during that time our sales people had a hard time (and no we don't send newsletters or nothing of the kind, just business email).
Being DOS'd or some of the scarier options proposed does not sound good to me.
You might want to try the FasterFox extension http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/, it does some of what you ask (it prefetches links and keeps the back and forward links in memory for example) although some people have warned me that some of what it does is considered bad ethics by webmasters, like prefetching or opening more threads than default.
Now, I find THAT to be creepy.
BTW your comment caused me to google on that, and it seems it's not mandatory in the US (I didn't know that, since most Hollywood movies have the defendant swear on a bible).
Unfortunately I don't have to imagine it. It happened in my country (Uruguay) up to 1985, during one of the Latin American dictatorships (backed up by the US btw).
There were several levels of security ratings, those with lower levels couldn't work, or study (I can't find a link of the specifics, and I was an infant at the time)
Unfortunately, there are so many laws, many of them conflicting, that it's very likely the policeman was correct.
I recall a newspaper calculated after the passing of some law in my country that at least 40% of the population had broken it.
Since everyone's a criminal, the government can select when to selectively enforce those laws... (this is an interesting theory/meme I see on Slashdot often, and it seems scaringly true.)